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ArcSight Analytics vs ArcSight Logger comparison

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

ArcSight Analytics
Average Rating
6.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) (17th)
ArcSight Logger
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (31st)
 

Mindshare comparison

ArcSight Analytics and ArcSight Logger aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. ArcSight Analytics is designed for User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) and holds a mindshare of 1.9%, up 1.2% compared to last year.
ArcSight Logger, on the other hand, focuses on Log Management, holds 0.9% mindshare, up 0.7% since last year.
User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
ArcSight Analytics1.9%
Exabeam8.8%
IBM Security QRadar7.4%
Other81.9%
User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)
Log Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
ArcSight Logger0.9%
Splunk Enterprise Security6.8%
IBM Security QRadar4.5%
Other87.8%
Log Management
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1311453 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Good filtering and reporting tools but can be difficult to use
It can scale as needed. It's not a problem. There are different teams using it. We have CSOC, which is internal, which is onshore, then we have a security operations center that is offshore, which would be in India. The onshore team might be a group of three, and the offshore might be a group of five. Likely, we have eight to ten people in total using the product directly.
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Sr. Cybersecurity Consultant IT/OT at EJADA
Compliance and cost-effectiveness have improved while critical infrastructure security adapts to evolving needs
ArcSight Logger fulfills compliance requirements and passes audit requirements. It is one of the Aramco standards requirements and is recommended by Aramco for any implementation. Aramco, SABIC, water companies, and electricity companies are critical infrastructure with air-gapped networks. In an air-gapped network, there is no communication going out from that network area to the outside world, even to the corporate network. ArcSight Logger is installed on minimal resources with minimal requirements. There are not many upgrades or new features that come up frequently, though they do occur occasionally.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The data collection and the integration with different products are valuable features."
"This solution allows us to identify connections for all users, and we can see the name, login time, IP address, and other information for each connection to each server."
"Investigating an incident has become super easy and helpful."
"The features I have found most valuable are its capabilities for behavioral analytics and anomaly detection."
"This is a very stable solution. It is the most stable ESM that I have worked with."
"We use this solution for monitoring our network."
"The ability to correlate different logs is the solution's most valuable feature."
"Our organization has improved because ArcSight allows multiple integrations with multiple systems which we did not do before using the product."
"We check a lot of logs in ArcSight Logger because we're running a massive database platform."
"In terms of ArcSight Logger's most valuable feature, it is their scalability. ArcSight's real advantage is its scalability because they have two layers, including the logger layer."
"Our return on investment for implementing ArcSight Logger over the past 12 months has been positive."
"ArcSight provides the basic information that we want."
"I am impressed with the product's ability to pick up logs. It also has UEBA which has reduced the time to take charge of the events."
"The machine learning is a good feature."
"The most important thing is the scalability of the product and its ease of use."
"The solution offers very good performance and is efficient."
 

Cons

"Their support team could be better."
"ArcSight is not a user-friendly solution and the interface needs to be improved."
"It needs more user analytics and aggregation user queries. And it's slow. When you query over ArcSight, it is very slow."
"[There is] complexity in maintaining it and managing it. It's not easy to use. It requires a lot of training."
"Customer service has not been up to the mark. They take longer than they should to resolve issues."
"Inactive connections from servers, which are upgraded or downgraded within a VM, should be automatically revoked."
"The interactive dashboard is more complicated comparing to his concurrent Qradar and you need to have training in order to do complexe configuration, so I think that it could be made easier to use."
"This is not a solution that I would recommend."
"I had some latency issues for two months. I had to increase our storage capacity significantly to reduce the latency."
"The speed of Logger indexing and searching for certain bugs for some queries that we provide could be improved. It can handle a huge number of logs but it can be improved."
"The integration with other systems could be improved."
"You have limited reporting capabilities and I wouldn't choose ArcSight Logger for this purpose."
"We find that the search and access functionality is quite slow."
"Apart from that, it's a very complex tool and is not easy to implement and maintain."
"The only thing I did not particularly like about the product was its speed on the web interface."
"They should enhance and improve everything related to the graphical user interface."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"My customers pay a yearly licensing fee for ArcSight Analytics."
"It can range between $30,000 and $40,000 USD, and can go up to $500,000 and $600,000 USD."
"This solution is expensive."
"ArcSight Analytics is a bit expensive compared with other tools in terms of licensing costs, training, hardware implementation, and support."
"In addition to the costs of standard licensing fees, there is the cost of labor for maintenance."
"The monthly licensing fee is around $20,000. There aren't any costs in addition to the standard licensing fee."
"The pricing is quite harsh."
"I rate the product’s pricing a seven out of ten, where one is inexpensive, and ten is expensive."
"ArcSight Logger is very expensive compared to their competitors, but when we talk to the customer and explain what the features are and how we can scale, they understand. Still, ArcSight is more expensive than the competition."
"We have a lifetime license, so we don't pay a monthly fee."
"ArcSight is an expensive solution."
"I would rate the product a seven out of ten since it's an enterprise product."
"It's not cheap at all as it's a big product and has been in the market for quite some time now."
"Pricing is reasonable compared to similar tools on the market. They offer perpetual licenses."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
17%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Marketing Services Firm
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Outsourcing Company
14%
Construction Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Healthcare Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise17
 

Questions from the Community

What SOC product do you recommend?
For tools I’d recommend: -SIEM- LogRhythm -SOAR- Palo Alto XSOAR Doing commercial w/o both (or at least an XDR) is asking to miss details that are critical, and ending up a statistic. Also, rememb...
What needs improvement with ArcSight Logger?
This decision is made by higher management as they don't want to have multiple solutions for one solution. ArcSight Logger themselves don't provide good support, but companies such as ours provide ...
What is your primary use case for ArcSight Logger?
We do work for multiple SIEM solutions such as Splunk, QRadar, LogRhythm. My team and I mostly work on ArcSight Logger and Splunk because we are dealing with projects related to these solutions. We...
What advice do you have for others considering ArcSight Logger?
As a department head, my staff uses my credentials and contacts everywhere. Only ArcSight Logger with Splunk was implemented in Aramco, not in other organizations. I rate ArcSight Logger 8 out of 10.
 

Also Known As

ArcSight User Behavior Analytics, ArcSight UBA
Micro Focus Arcsight Logger, HPE Arcsight Logger
 

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Sample Customers

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China Merchants Bank, Bank AlJazira, Banca Intesa
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